OFFEND, SHOCK, OR DISTURB
FREE SPEECH UNDER THE INDIAN CONSTITUION
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Gautam Bhatia
Bhatia’s new book is a comprehensive examination of free speech issues in India. Taking as its point of departure the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech, it discusses the development of related laws, from colonial times to present-day controversies. Issues such as sedition, hate speech, censorship, obscenity and pornography, privacy and defamation, contempt of court, and the relationship between free speech and economic structure are all thoroughly explored.
Oxford University Press, 392 pages, Rs 750
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